NOVEL LINE FOR POOR LAND.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 10

NOVEL LINE FOR POOR LAND.

;«ItA.isSES, ■J w ,Vi\ f >^ltiiji^V(j^tS.ieci!ssar^y l Cover • the ihountaiA'peaks; 'stuufed:; : 'tlAtjVtKeyv are; therefore of , ho. i™^alue;itbpho ! ma©who;iatten3i sheep, or sells. : lj^^uiUk.'^imonß: : ( l are to .bo :'- : ' : :touiitl, ; : h«ro arid' ; there, of .'-.' . account on warmei! levels. V-. \ . ..' Mr. H. 8.. '1 ravers, Jt'.li.S., of Kilbirme, has -•..': -been probing .alpine secrets for several, years past, and has grown, in tho lower levels ot i!/. 1 \Vellington city,'.some of :the mountain plants >',-which lie has ''gathered; with„ a: view to, discorS^Viering : ;;'thqif , '^^rip^.turfll';.;%orth:.!;'.-He.v : is' 'how BStihct. pastoral i valued and,' , of ithese,'. lie, instances v ;l' ; il?.poa SaifdJ daritlipnir families,{"anil >.onb:.or two : of thojagrostiai family.' B:.f>rj»:':' : vlV ; ]iaVe':.bGefi^3^iuß': : th"G? r m6ajniaxiis .botanic-ally,";-liesaid ntd'ija,; DoHraiON. : ;reporterj>'i''for v ' Bome, time-pastAaud.l : believa;-that cultivation :5;Jv vj und : 'selection'.'::toajf^cflect.; tis ; jgreat an :'improve- ;;, /.irient among- grasses; .as Ims . been effected - J "'among' is -'a)/very;: important work ir-'j^hcrej;;because r is 'chiefly pastoral;rather / than agricultural;: and we should, ido' ; our.'.jbe.st" tc<; SfMiethe : ; ,very ; ' best' grasses 'for. X-gfpur i/suggested tho Gov®rn™?ntl'that'stli!^eVshbul(l, l bei,certain.'stn.tigns i,..:-.-for..grasses where ;we vcouJ4 Jii&sjsd'f iis - /-the ' poorer classes. lit'i : V^ ; ;lands.. .: i there, is £ dp;,wlell^there;" y CJifc s Mr;;;;ttaver^;;referi:6d'^tof jthe :,cpjd //tussbCfc past lire ; .not.bo ; much improved ?v J '-;u;f , .W'ittout;thav'did;-'6£--m6untein- vrliich ; is; ■~would; n ot be checked by six weeks of snow. •. Ze a jMid/N , I 'l hold ' the soil: together and make.' 'swards - those ¥which: :! fbrm^tussocksy;.l'have corlected a few hundred plants, and distributed ..... : them in districts', to test oh' nioist ...V'soils . and dry, good soils • and poor,; and .-at .. various altitudes.; The tests rot i altitudes": are ;of; all.i':One-;plaitt;tthat \is . v prominent [among, many is one of. the cares, :an. alpine.;plant^"and'it soils,. off,',without. injury; it" grows ;y,ft ; It.visvparennial; ; y'lt : :;is;::aOwonderful ■ ;think in ' cultivationanywhere ; in ,' • °r,; : ill: Via .- perfectly, .denso I •'wilt other -grasses, ■ n^h°n thus sheltering "each: other.' ~ I wquld;grp\V:^vell"on;the Jow.country.. . advantagQi'.off^bur^'-.getting virriountaiu' : yr. r' .Brasses-, \s v that i"• thby/ ttrb rather -on VWf Viii contrasfc Jttf such;: grasses -as ; 'WP}^ B !* lr ©-^og 'more' less :water,- and ;as tho animal i ?5?i f much ;water I jire;, ./xtremely ; , fattening. ; Theleffect: oi -grissesVonn'tha^qtidityyof- : the, meat produced is very, marked. If you go up into - £^- ; .v^? I ?^Fy>.v.) v A^? & .V;nierinb.:>jsheep '"are -kept. w • • thp i 1 Supierior .- flavour - of •; the is the: same .with -beef.. 'You can : v what : ; superiorvmeat .is the*e. .'•'.v.. All these.-points' would be.- properly tested. • ...on an;experiment,stationVforv grasses<•'' part, of 'the. experinients out-alsp';hpw; ; this istock -liked ' the dif'Cf®ll'. '*;.They - seem; .especially "• fond of care\. Caie-c belongs, I believe, to tho same •^4.i a Wjr.' m; corn broom, sit, -would,-' be. too hard if preserved as hay, and, perhaps, % iife ; w;ould bp .best suited jor cattle. When- burned off, however, 'tho macli' 1 relished h'yrflfieep/'-